Yang, Zhenhai; Pang, W.K.; Hou, S.H.; Leung, P.K. - In: Journal of Multivariate Analysis 95 (2005) 1, pp. 23-36
In this paper, we use a combination of VDR theory and patchwork method to derive an efficient algorithm for generating uniform random points on a unit d-sphere. We first propose an algorithm to generate random vector with uniform distribution on a unit 2-sphere on the plane. Then we use VDR...